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Rajiv Gandhi, officially known as Rajiv Ratna Gandhi, was India’s sixth Prime Minister. He took the post after his mother Indira Gandhi’s assassination and held it from 1984 to 1989. Rajiv was the scion of India’s one of the most powerful families, the Nehru-Gandhi family. Thus, he got into politics and associated with the Congress party eventually.

During his tenure as the PM, Rajiv had a controversy-stricken period journey. Among others, the greatest crisis was caused by the Shah Bano case and Bhopal disaster. His support to reverse the coup in Maldives in the year 1988 infuriated the Tamil militants, PLOTE and LTTE.

In 1991 he was assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE militant group while he was campaigning for elections.

In the same year, Government of India posthumously awarded Rajiv Gandhi with the country's highest civilian award - Bharat Ratna.